She is the outsider candidate among the four aspirants to the office of governor of Sardinia and her entry into the field with the Sardigna R-exists list is more than a bet, it is a call to responsibility for her adversaries "who in different periods have governed the Island and who cannot be said to be extraneous to the disaster facing our region".
Lucia Chessa, 63 years old, originally from Bitti, national secretary of Rossomori, comes from the world of school.
She was mayor of Austis, a municipality of almost 800 inhabitants in the province of Nuoro.
"It's a question of assuming responsibility for those who have had government roles in recent decades and I'm not among them - he tells ANSA - you can ask me the question 'what would you do?'
not to others who have already done it and we find ourselves in this situation."
From healthcare to transport to depopulation, there are many issues touched upon by Chessa in this electoral campaign which has seen her compete with the battleships of the centre-right and centre-left, who have brought the big guns to the island.
"This descent of big names suggests a very weak and inconsistent regional policy that needs to call its big brother because it is incapable of proposing - he attacks - something unseemly and humiliating which shows a Sardinia not aware of itself and its own claims" .
Among the issues of the moment there is first and foremost the electoral law: "It's a disgrace that the regional council did to the Sardinians in 2013. All the councilors who voted for it were re-nominated - he observes - The center-right and center-left have armored themselves by excluding that different formations and with alternative values found representation in the council chamber. It is an electoral law that undermines the fundamentals of democracy."
Then healthcare: "There is no need to remind the Sardinians who queue for 12 hours in the emergency room, that the small hospitals are empty boxes and that many of them do not have a general practitioner. Prevention is also lacking - he insists - and this can mean the difference between life and death."
Hence the depopulation of the internal areas of the island which suffer, explains the aspiring governor, "the criminalization of everything that is small".
This means, according to Chessa, affecting the territories "on an economic, social and environmental level" and eliminating the potential such as that of "small-scale agriculture made up of family-run businesses that have represented the economic backbone of Sardinia". outsider does not spare attacks on transport too: "We have a shameful road system".
The "most modest and smallest railway network in Italy, with a capital, Nuoro, not served by Trenitalia".
The finger was then pointed at other fundamental services: "there are many Sardinians who don't have drinking water in their taps".
"When the others go into government, we will be breathing down their necks. Sardigna R-esiste will continue."
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